Senior Java Engineer Job Trends in Dorset

Senior Java Engineer
South West > Dorset

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in Dorset is £54,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 86 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 0.26% 0.10% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,000 £46,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% - -
75th Percentile £56,000 £48,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.48% -8.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dorset. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Dorset with a recognized job title 380 921 382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.19% 94.36% 87.82%
Number of salaries quoted 228 474 336
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £29,188 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -7.83% +8.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,625 £77,500
South West median annual salary £45,272 £50,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -10.35% -7.34% +9.00%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings that featured Senior Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in Dorset

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in Dorset.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in Dorset

Senior Java Engineer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Engineer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 1 £54,000 -
Senior Java Engineer
South West

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Senior Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Dorset region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform